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Charles Vanel

Film Director / Screenwriter | * 08/21/1892 († 96, 04/15/1989) | Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine (France)
Charles-Marie Vanel (21 August 1892 – 15 April 1989) was a French actor and director. During his 65-year film career, which began in 1923, he appeared in more than 200 films and worked with many prominent directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Jacques Feyder, and Henri-Georges Clouzot. He is perhaps best remembered for his role as a desperate truck driver in Clouzot's The Wages of Fear for which he received a Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Crime | Adventure

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Le Feu aux poudres

Certification unknown

1957 | 2.2/5 | 1h 13min
Crime
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In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upo ...

The Wages of Fear

PG-13

1953 | 4.0/5 | 2h 33min
Drama, Thriller, Adventure
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An ex-thief is accused of enacting a new crime spree, so to clear his name he sets off to catch the new thief, who’s imitating his signature style. ...

To Catch a Thief

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1955 | 3.7/5 | 1h 47min
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance / Love, Thriller
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The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged b ...

Diabolique

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1955 | 3.9/5 | 1h 57min
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Awards & Nominations for Charles Vanel

Order of the Francisque Silver Shell for Best Actor
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Movies with Charles Vanel as Actor(138)

as Anzevui1987 If the Sun Never Returns
1981 La Puce et le Privé
as Donato Giuranna1981 Three Brothers
as Léon1980 The Lost Way
as Le grand-père1978 Ne pleure pas
as Henri Vergennes1977 Alice or the Last Escapade
as Charles Fournier1976 Golden Night
as Jean Ritter1976 Boomerang
as Procurator Varga1976 Illustrious Corpses
as Pr Brézé1975 Seven Deaths by Prescription
as Großvater Parra1975 Es herrscht Ruhe im Land
as Whalley1973 The End of the Tether
as Baron Ucciani1973 Le Reflet dans la mer
as Il Presidente1972 The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
as Don Mimo De Ritis1972 Camorra
as Bohringer1972 La Nuit bulgare
1972 Le Père Goriot
as Juliani1970 Countdown to Vengeance
as himself1969 À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
as l'invité au vernissage1968 Woman in Chains
as Passevin1967 Shock Troops
1967 L'Arlésienne
as Marinau le matelot1965 Song of the World
as Dieudonné Ferchaux1963 Magnet of Doom
as Paoli1963 Symphony for a Massacre
as Van Hekken1963 Rififi in Tokyo
as le procureur du roi1963 A King Without Distraction
as Pére Christophore1962 The Steppe
as Father Alexandre1961 Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece
as Maître Guérin1960 La Vérité
as Ossip Semjonowitsch1959 Prisoner of the Volga
as L'armateur Mével1959 Island Fishermen
as Marnez1959 The Wreckers
as Le Vieux1959 Gorilla's Waltz
as Léonce Pozzi, dit "Le Fondu"1958 Sinners of Paris
as Colonel Berthomieu1958 The Mask of the Gorilla
as Caillé1958 No Escape
1957 Le Feu aux poudres
as Commissioner Perrache1957 The Suspects
as Verdisio1956 Defend My Love
as Castin1956 Death in the Garden
as Police Inspector Alfred Fichet1955 Diabolique
as Bertani1955 To Catch a Thief
1955 Native Drums
as Père Gauthier1955 A Missionary
as Il capitano Hurluret1954 The Cheerful Squadron
as Wolf Andergast1954 On Trial
as M. de Vergennes1954 Royal Affairs in Versailles
as Giovanni Lamberti1954 Maddalena
as Mr. Jo1953 The Wages of Fear
1952 Malaire
as Lubiani1951 Il bivio
as Judge Marco Valsetti1951 The Last Sentence
as Bastiano1951 Incantesimo tragico
1950 The Fighting Men
as Nostromo Norus1950 Cuori sul mare
as Massaro Turi Passalacqua1949 In the Name of the Law
1948 The Woman I Murdered
1947 La Cabane aux souvenirs
as Laurent1947 Woman of Evil
as Le capitaine Hervé1947 Le Bateau à soupe
1946 Gringalet
1945 Hanged Man's Farm
as Pierre Gauthier1944 The Woman Who Dared
as L'homme du mas1943 Le soleil a toujours raison
as François Roquevillard1943 The Roquevillards
1942 Promise to the Unknown One
as Isidore Lechat1942 Business Is Business
as François Ascarra1942 Haut le vent
1941 The Black Diamond
as le fermier1940 The Wonderful Night
as Le Coronel - le chef de la police1940 Cristobal's Gold
as Dalrymple1939 Law of the North
as Rachid El Hame1939 Yamilé Under the Cedars
as Général Kalitjeff1939 Savage Brigade
as Le capitaine Olivier1938 Southern Bar
as Durc1938 The Woman at the End of the World
as Roger de Vétheuil1938 Carrefour
as Jean Cadière1938 The West
as Henri Pierson1938 Rail Pirates
1938 Legions of Honor
1938 S.O.S. Sahara
as Jacques Ferney1937 Abused Confidence
as Herlin1937 Southern Carrier
as Salviati1937 Social Police
1937 Troïka sur la piste blanche
as Benoit1936 Jenny
as Robert Sylvain1936 The Fear
as Alexandre Mérital1936 Assault
as Commander Vassidloff1936 Port-Arthur
1936 The Seniors
as Charles dit Charlot1936 They Were Five
1936 The Flame
1936 Michel Strogoff
as Nebel, a sculptor1935 The Green Domino
1935 Roi de Camargue
1935 L'Impossible Aveu
as Le lieutenant Maury1935 Flight Into Darkness
1935 Les Bateliers de la Volga
as Geroges Laudy1934 At the End of the World
as Inspector Javert1934 Les Misérables
as Pierre1934 Obsession
as Clement1934 The Great Game
1933 Gitanes
as Michaux1932 Dainah the Mixed
as Lancelot1932 In the Name of the Law
as Caporal Breval1932 Wooden Crosses
1932 Case closed
1931 Rio's yellow house
as Ramon1931 Dance house
as André Marco, dit Dédé1931 Faubourg Montmartre
as Henri Lapalle1930 Accused, Stand Up!
as Gardian Mitifio1930 L'Arlésienne
1930 The Yellow Captain
as Fernand (François)1930 Chic
as Napoleon1929 Waterloo
as Der Steuermann1929 Drei Tage auf Leben und Tod - aus dem Logbuch der U.C.1
as Angel Call1929 An Ideal Woman
as L'ouvrier carrier1929 In the Night
1928 Le Passager
1927 Apaches of Paris
1927 Feu!
1927 Die weisse Sklavin
1927 The Prey of the Wind
1926 Nitchevo
as John Durand1926 Mister Mustard's Millions
1925 The Awakening
1925 Barocco
as Jan1924 Island Fishermen
1924 La Flambée des rêves
1924 Heart of an Actress
1923 The Hearth
1923 Calvaire d'amour
1923 L'Autre aile
as Henri Corradin1923 The House of Mystery
as Raoul Mauduit1922 Tempêtes
as Dimitri1922 Phroso
1921 The Child of the Carnival

TV Shows/Series with Charles Vanel as Actor(2)

as Louis Maréchal1970 Sébastien et la Mary-Morgane
as himself1956 Cinépanorama

Movies with Charles Vanel as Crew(3)

Directing/Director1932 Case closed
Directing/Director1929 In the Night
Writing/Writer1929 In the Night

Full Name: Charles Vanel
Citizenship: France
Born: Sunday, 08/21 1892 (August) in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine (France)
Died: Saturday, 04/15 1989 (April) in Cannes (aged: 96)
Zodiac sign: Leo (Chinese zodiac sign: Dragon)
Languages: French (FR, native language)
Other names for Charles Vanel (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Charles-Henri Vanel"
"Charles Marie Vanel"
Charles Vanel frequently works together with these people:
Jacques de Baroncelli (18x, Crew)
Henri-Georges Clouzot (10x, Crew)
Raymond Cordy (10x, Actor)
Pierre Larquey (8x, Actor)
Jean Dréville (8x, Crew)
Charles Spaak (8x, Crew)
Raymond Aimos (7x, Actor)
Gaby Morlay (7x, Actress)
Paul Demange (7x, Actor)
René Bergeron (6x, Actor)
Antoine-Louis Dominique (6x, Crew)
Frédéric Rossif (3x, Crew)
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